September 20
2012

I'm throwing an anniversary rewatch via #Firefly10th. The catch/hook/twist? We'll be watching in original air date order, celebrating the anniversary of each episode as it comes up. So, yes, that means the original, out-of-order order.

I will tweet "I don't like the theme song. This show is way too hokey with the cowboy stuff. Horses?! Why are they talking like that? Whats with the chinese?" as that was my original thoughts when I aaw Trainjob.

Interesting idea for celebrating, b!X. I think I even have *gasp!* full-screen copies from iTunes with the original intros. Though, I don't know if I can handle actually watching it that way over a Blu-ray copy.

Every year that passed since the cancellation I thought about what season the show could've been at by that point. It's crazy to think it's been ten years now! I don't think they would have gone to ten seasons, but whenever I imagine whatever run the show could've had if it weren't mistreated in its infancy... it really depresses me. To be so great so early, and have so much promise, and then to be cut off before having a chance (not even a full season).

Firefly is still my favorite tv series of all time, I am and ever will be a Browncoat. The Browncoats are the most diverse, most welcoming community I've ever encountered and I am proud to be a part of this awesome group (and the broader group of Whedon fans).

Still flying.

ETA: Also, I wish they had included the original opening narrations on the dvd/blu-ray in some form - even as extras. And speaking of extras, there was a lot of great content on the original official Fox Firefly website, including many video interviews with cast and crew that I really wish they'd put on the discs.

I remember watching watching every episode for the first time and how excited I was. I miss that little show as much as ever. They should release a new blu-ray with the opening narrations and some celebrity geek-outs about it like we've had for Doctor Who (on BBC America anyway). Would be a nice companion to the new DVD.

I would happily triple dip on Firefly if they released a new Blu-ray. Add in commentaries on the remaining commentary-less episodes. Throw on the Reunion panel video as an extra. Add in the videos from the original Fox site, the original opening narrations (put them back at the beginning of the episodes for best effect - some of them you can even hear the very tail end as if it was just lopped off for dvd). Put the COMPLETE gag reel on, rather than the butchered version. Put the unaired version of the pilot as an extra, and add more deleted scenes from all the episodes. And perhaps a new documentary about Firefly's lasting influence (i.e. on shows like BSG, scifi, and the tv landscape.)

I think this quote from Serenity sums up my feelings: "Love. You can learn all the math in the 'Verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her a home."

And it was my home, all those times when I was feeling down, I could just escape to this fantastic world.

I remember catching The Train Job on TV when I in residence at university and when I was home to visit my parents. I liked what I saw but didn't fully grasp the awesome until the boxset came out afterwards...pity :S

Still! Ten years on, we're still here and Joss is riding mighty high, the cast has lots of awesome stuff they're doing and the Browncoats are still flying. Not much more to ask for...other than the other seasons we lost back ;P

Joss Whedon has decided on the effects house which will be creating the FX shots for his far future space show, FIREFLY. Radium is the lucky FX shop, and it’s got a heavy load for the first episode, titled “Serenity” (that’s also the name of the main ship, a Firefly class space ship).

According to the specs for the job, the first two hours of the show will have 80 digital shots of not only starships but also synthetic people and aliens.

The more we hear about this project, the more we want to hear. Here’s hoping Whedon can do for space adventures what he did for vampires with BUFFY.

Still remember watching the premiere 10 years ago. When Mal kicked Crow into the engine, I knew this was going to be my new favorite show. Even out of order and missing episodes, it was still one of the best things on TV.

It's interesting to think where the characters would be now, ten years on. Certainly still not together aboard Serenity (if the old boat is even flying). Where might their very public exposure following the Miranda event have tacken them?

Heh, bix, that was a funny moment in the gag reel; cool to see it from "the other side." Sidebar: Nathan looks so incredibly young...

Interesting to think back. Ten years ago this month I fell in love with a TV show that would change my life forever -- inspiring me to higher heights, sustaining me in my lowest lows. Yes, just as I began college, my new friends made me sit down and watch a show better than anything I'd ever seen. I will always remember the first time I saw Buffy.

Yeah, you heard me. I was late to this party.

That was a strange month. I saw Once More With Feeling, Tabula Rasa, Fool for Love/Darla, and I think Pangs, possibly in that order. And then I started watching S1. Lucky for me my next-door neighbor had the S2 DVDs. I think I saw Firefly for the first time the Thanksgiving of 2003... in one night. Watched the whole show and then watched the sun come up.

I don't know if this makes it any better, but I think I may never have discovered Firefly if it hadn't been cancelled.

The only reason I bought Firefly was because there was a 2 for 1 sale on DVDs at Barnes and Noble, and I was buying a season of Stargate Atlantis. I'd heard Firefly was good, and the whole thing was right there in one little box, no need to come back to buy season 2!

I didn't see it mentioned in that review, but for those wondering: yes, it's the three existing books bound together in a hardcover edition. But then it adds in some framable prints of the crew and a flimsy-paper reproduction of some currency from the show.

I managed to hold it together when I posted the first time but now you guys are making me start to lose it (at work no less). It's no wonder Joss and Nathan (and most surprisingly, Tim) broke up at Comic-Con.